Re: The Bonzo Dog Band - The Doughnut In Granny's Greenhouse (1968)

by Nightjar Thu Apr 23, 2020 8:59 pm

Great parody.

Great.

by Nightjar Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:00 pm

Great parroty.

budgie dance

by Guest Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:00 pm

Yorkshire ->Liverpool accent!

Great work there Viv!

by Nightjar Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:00 pm

Now it does sound like Zappa.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:01 pm

Track 11 - Rhinocratic Oaths.

by Guest Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:01 pm

I'm going for another drink, I think this might be a mistake!

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:01 pm

by Nightjar Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:01 pm

Early reference to Rawlinson!

by Nightjar Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:02 pm

Viv's narrative aside, this is very Hot Rats-era Zappa.

by Nightjar Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:04 pm

This last track is a masterpiece.

by Nightjar Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:04 pm

Roger Corman-Hammer! Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:04 pm

Last track - Moustachioed Daughters.

by Nightjar Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:05 pm

Harpsichord mania!

by Guest Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:05 pm

It's all very Zappa.

by Nightjar Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:06 pm

"11 Moustachioed Daughters.
Running in a field of fat.
The full moon high, the mandrakes speak, please come
To our sabat.
The changing children shiver round the fire their
Mothers dance.
Strangely painted faces that smile but never laugh.
The crow pecked gibbet's victim, swings broken in his cage
His hands cut down to make a crown to wear as a
Homage.
Round and round the magic things our fingers fastly
Rush
And wolf like things and toads with wings whisper wetly
"Come with us"
Fresh plucked eye of a favourite cat, pulped and mixed
With white hens fat, a lapwings wing, and lions roar, like belladonna to make your eyes
Like a beast
To anoint the body and make it shine
To drink and make thyself divine
To choose another form and make it thine
And knowledge of a blasphemy
And fill the fetid air
With ancient lies
And leprous cries
This night he will be there
A madness has the mouthsgate wide,
As one they sway and moan,
And every brutish face is turned
To see our goat kings throne
Worship for satan hee-hee"

by Guest Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:07 pm

I've got loads of Zappa albums, and I err... like him, but sometimes his smugness, his priggishness, the sneering at anyone who, basically isn't Frank Zappa gets tiresome.

hmm

It's also a musical dead end.

Oh, and the racism.

I felt I need to share, and this is not a bad place to share, as I'm getting similar vibes here.

by Nightjar Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:08 pm

Trademark deadpan irrelevant voiceovers alert! llama

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:08 pm

Taking forever to end.

by Nightjar Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:09 pm

The original LP version doesn't drag on like that.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:10 pm

It is over.

All involved in making it seemed to find it a jolly jape.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everyone else made of it. Excited

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